This is my favorite sweater I’ve ever made!

I’m not sure who this pattern is written for with a larger bust than hips but I’m making it to have a larger bottom band (size 35.5) and smaller bust (size 33). I just added one more decrease repeat for 4 total and used only 2 increase repeats. Stitch counts: 156 hip, 140 waist, 148 bust.

I don’t really like how my 1x1 rib looks in yarn this big so I switched to 2x2 rib. Because of that the sleeves would have been enormous so I only CO 36 for the sleeves and then increased pretty evenly up to 52 stitches.

The only other modification I made was adding the cream to the neckline and hip band. On the neck I switched to cream for one row of knit after 8 rows of ribbing and then bound off in purl. On the bottom band I picked up 156 stitches and bound off in purl.

This yarn is super soft! The tweed bled like crazy when I washed it, but luckily it didn’t noticeably soak into the cream.